The Time to Edit is Nigh

/ March 2, 2010

Yesterday marked the start of NaNoEdMo, or National Novel Editing Month for people who hate acronyms. The goal in NaNoEdMo (EdMo for short) is to complete 50 hours of editing on one project, which averages out to

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Plotting Revisals

/ February 2, 2010

This dark sketchy picture represents the last complete draft of FALLING TO NORMAL, the young adult novel I’m shopping around. Or was until I got no hits from the queries sent in the last half of 2009,

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My Mini Vacation

/ December 28, 2009

Unofficially, my vacation started on Christmas Eve. (When you work in educational software, there isn’t much to do between 12/24 and 1/2.) Officially, it starts tomorrow at noon and ends the moment I wake up on January

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Editing, I’m Your Bitch

/ April 6, 2009

The past two months has been focused on the rewrite to FALLING TO NORMAL. I’m hoping that this is final time. I have moved entire scenes and chapters around. This was necessary, and I think it’s tightened

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